status: public Mon Dec 7 21:26:10 2020 Proposals for immunity or vaccine passes have resurfaced with promising news about vaccines, but the web standards they’re based on contain flaws. MicroStrategy is turning to investors to fund up to $400 million more in bitcoin purchases.
status: public Mon Dec 7 20:46:10 2020 As bitcoin rallied from $13,400 to over $19,000, a trader who bought the $36,000-strike January expiry call saw a paper profit of more than $4 million.
status: public Mon Dec 7 20:26:11 2020 More money, more participants, more participating banks and merchants – a look inside the latest DC/EP trial in Suzhou.
status: public Mon Dec 7 19:56:10 2020 German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz took aim at the rebranded lDiem and said it would take more than cosmetic changes to smoothen regulatory concerns. Since its preview announcement, we’ve witnessed incredible excitement and adoption of Azure Synapse from our customers and partners. — Harness analytical and predictive power […]
status: public Mon Dec 7 19:26:09 2020 Oon CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ on Monday, Allaire spoke about the regulatory attitudes toward stablecoins and how the incoming administration may treat crypto.
status: public Mon Dec 7 19:16:09 2020 BBVA is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans.
status: public Mon Dec 7 17:46:09 2020 Singapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany’s second-largest stock exchange’s crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of “Ethereum-first” institutional buyers. Abra is expanding its crypto marketplace to dozens more countries through partnerships with four fiat-to-crypto gateways.
status: public Mon Dec 7 17:26:10 2020 Blockstack’s Stacks tokens could soon no longer be a security in the US and become available to US investors.
status: public Mon Dec 7 16:46:10 2020 MobileCoin, which has been a bit of a white whale since the initial coin offering (ICO) era of 2017, announced a mainnet launch on Monday. The U.S. Treasury Department issued a statement following a virtual call with other G7 members.
status: public Mon Dec 7 16:16:10 2020 SIX will join Swisscom and Sygnum in a new venture aimed to enable Swiss banks to offer digital assets to their customers. The company acquired nearly 18,000 new ASICs in an all-stock transaction.
status: public Mon Dec 7 15:46:10 2020 Alexander Vinnik, an alleged BTC-e operator, was found guilty of money laundering in France and sentenced to five years in prison.
status: public Mon Dec 7 15:16:10 2020 Bittrex’s tokenized shares can be bought in fractions, rather than whole shares.
status: public Mon Dec 7 14:16:09 2020 This year’s rapid price gains are unnerving some investors, but NYDIG’s Greg Cipolaro argues that bitcoin’s growing network could justify $52K in five years. Today, we are announcing the expansion of our mission-critical cloud for US Government with new capabilities in Azure Government, the expansion of Azure Government […]
status: public Mon Dec 7 14:01:09 2020 Defense and national security missions often occur away from headquarters and in the field, where things happen quickly and rapid decision making can translate to success or failure. — Azure Modular Datacenter – Mission resiliency for the field — Defense and national security missions often occur away from […]
status: public Mon Dec 7 13:16:09 2020 Germany’s second-largest stock exchange says its trading app Bison exceeded its expectations this year.
status: public Mon Dec 7 12:46:08 2020 A proposed OCC rule would stop banks from using political criteria in lending. But we don’t need it, says our columnist.
status: public Mon Dec 7 11:26:09 2020 The government-backed foundation is funding research and development of commercial use cases for blockchain technology.
status: public Mon Dec 7 10:56:10 2020 The proof-of-concept issuance of tokenized bonds was carried out on a blockchain platform built by Standard Chartered’s fintech investment unit.
status: public Mon Dec 7 10:36:09 2020 All three of Thailand’s tax departments reportedly aim to improve tax revenue collection using blockchain technology.
status: public Mon Dec 7 09:56:10 2020 Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, is looking at blockchain tech to solve problems in the city, starting with an e-voting system.